US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 19 for "Inferring latency sensitivity of user activity" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,850, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inferring latency sensitivity of user activity" was invented by Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Karnataka, India), Rohan Saxena (Pittsburgh) and Parth Dhaval Thakkar (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods may analyze an impact of latency on user activities by leveraging the variation of latency seen in the normal course of user activities with an application. The systems and methods may infer the latency sensitivity of users by comparing a biased latency distribution of user actions to an estimate of the underlying u...